Hi Railway team,

I urgently need help recovering data from my Railway-hosted n8n instance.

Project: attractive-reverence

Service: n8n

Service ID: b37ae548-c979-4179-8008-1fdb545bfc8e

Deployment ID: 5129f94e-7bd5-4068-aa63-27ce89a85297

The attached persistent volume still exists:

• volume name: n8n-volume
• mounted at: /home/node/.n8n

At approximately 17:19 on 7th May, after a redeploy/configuration change, all workflows disappeared from the n8n UI and the instance started behaving like a fresh install.

Important observations:

• Earlier I received many “User attempted to access/update a workflow without permissions” errors.
• Logs also show: “Could not find any entity of type SharedWorkflow”
• n8n later reports: “Processed 0 draft workflows, 0 published workflows”
• The volume is still attached and online.
• Railway SSH authentication succeeds, but the shell connection closes immediately.

This strongly suggests the original SQLite DB/workflow data may still exist on the mounted volume but n8n may have reinitialized ownership/user state or switched DB state.

Could you please check whether:

• older volume contents still exist,
• an earlier volume snapshot is available,
• old SQLite/WAL files are recoverable,
• or whether the volume can be inspected/restored manually.

This contains several weeks of business-critical workflow development work.

I would hugely appreciate any recovery assistance possible.